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So who grew the free seeds?

What a disappointment! They are the tomato for people who don't like tomatoes. Because they are said to be good outdoors and very early I grew quite a lot and gave them to people. I'm now ashamed! I've been harvesting Sungold and Golden Sunrise from outdoor plants for a couple of weeks now but only had my first SAP yesterday. It tastes of NOTHING!

No wonder they were free!

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Shan't be wanting a swap of them then

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I threw our plants away when it became obvious that other tomatoes were gonna fruit before them - as Flum says they're (usually) grown for earliness not taste - couldn't be bothered to lose the space on them.

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

But they weren't even early!

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Updated January 3rd - Birdwatching.

my sap have been very poor also

I think I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm not one of lifes gifted tomato growers. I haven't eaten a single tomato yet! Got a couple of bunches on my golden sunrise, but that's it. Looks like I'm destined for tasteless supermarket varieties for some time yet.

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I have 3 plants with large green toms on and they show no sign of turned any colour never mind red! my neighbourr gave me gardeners delight ( 2 tiny plants) they are pushing 6 foot and ive been popping delicious red toms in my mouth for weeks now.

have you tried growing red alert . my 1st try this year at growing and red alert have been very good cropper

I haven't been very impressed with the S.A.P. either. And what makes it even worse is that I wasted one of my HSL choices on them, then got the free packet on the mag., and after all that they're cr*p! My Shirley, Sungold, Tamina, Millefleur and Salt Spring Sunrise all ripened before it! Early? My @rse!!

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Thanks for that Flummery. I was planning to try them next year - always on the lookout fro a good outdoor variety in Scotland, but I won't bother with them now.

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Well I'm glad its not just me. My plants are totally devoid of any flowers, just alot of leaves. I was planning to ditch them this weekend, so now I will.

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Mine took ages to germinate then not very many and they just gave up so not one single plant.

If the flavour had turned out to be exceptional it would be worth persisting but they taste of nothing. Water, maybe!

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If a man is in the garden and speaks, and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

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Updated January 3rd - Birdwatching.

My dad put his in the greenhouse and they are doing brilli.
One of his plants is about 6 foot tall and has 12 tomato`s on one trussel.
Mine are in the garden they have had tomato`s on for what seems like forever but they aren`t turning red. ( my avatar is of one of the tomato`s)

This is the bit i don't get Sharon. S A P are meant to be a cherry tomato an your aviator don't look like a cherry tomato to me... more like a beefsteak x cherry and mine are the same.

I Have 6 plants of S A P and my observations are................ Masses of leaves and green growth, medium size fruits that resemble small beefsteak tomatoes, lots of flowers but not much fruit by comparison.
Five plants stayed at bush size and one plant grew like a triffid to 6ft!

I have now resorted to pruning off some of the over bushy leaf growth to let the fruits see the sun a bit and all fruits are looking solid green an no sign of ripening yet.

I think Mr Fothergill should either ditch this new verity or change the labeling to late ripening and tasteless because this many disappointed veg growers can not be all wrong.

I've just been out in a waterproof with a torch - because I can't remember seeing any SAP and I know I grew them amongst the other varieties, but I can't find a single plant, I must have given them all away and not kept one for myself - not at all disappointed now and won't bother using up the space with them next year either!

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I've got very little green growth, loads of flowers, but no fruit set at all. I'm persevering, but only because there is nothing else ready to go in their place if I were to pull them up. Better a few dud toms than weeds I suppose. I'm really glad I didn't pay for them and I have been tempted to order them in the past. Still, I suppose one of the advantages of free seeds is that as well as finding varieties that we'd try again we also learn about the don't-touch-with-a barge-pole ones too.

I thought it was just me. Just like you Flummery I have also given quite a lot of them to family and friends. I was persevering with them but after the comments made by other grapes I think I will get rid of the lot and free up some room in the greenhouse, not to mention time spent on watering.
As the saying goes........... "there is no such thing as a free lunch"

I'M not impreesed either.All foliage and hardly any fruit!!!!

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Totally unremarkable here too. Was expecting them to be early but they're way behind the others. Am now picking cherry toms out the hanging baskets and my Red Alert will be ready by the end of the week which is perhaps as well as the plants are sagging with the imense load - they're what I call a fab outdoor tomato which is why I've been growing them the past few years (Red Alert that is, not SAP!)

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Well given their history I thought they would be superb up here. I pulled one out of the tunnel yesterday and even though I searched through the mass of leaves, there wasn't one flower on it! I've left the other one, but it won't be long I think before it goes too.

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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
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Same here,
Lots of foliage very little fruit and poor in taste, wont be growing them in the future.

MG

Mine sat in the ground sulking for ages, now they have green fruits on them. I'll have them as Fried Green Tomatoes I think.

PS. I haven't had much success with ANY free seeds: Purple sprouts were awful, winter lettuce were awful ... I guess that's the reason why seed companies offload them as "free offers"

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I chucked my SAP in May.

They were unhealthy plants, compared to the others, and very slow. They just weren't worth the effort.

I don't believe it's anything to do with them being free, however!